Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Alt-Tab on Vista

Call me a gadfly, but does anyone else find the Alt-Tab functionality in Vista to be almost useless? Almost all of my windows are text, which means that they all look very much alike when they are shrunk down. In addition, the selection rectangle as you cycle through the windows is just a faint outline with the same interior color as everything else, so it's very difficult to see the current selection. Since I routinely keep 20+ windows open, changing between windows has become very painful.

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I have been writing commercial software for Microsoft operating systems since MS-DOS 1.0. I am published in magazines such as Dr. Dobbs Journal, C++ Users Journal, and Visual C++ Developers Journal. I am in the Giant List of Classic Game Programmers.